VOICES: Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves Shorts Program

78 Minute Running Time

Q&A with filmmaker Suzanne HeintzWomen have always had to blaze their own trails. With each film we experience a woman faced with obstacles, both external and internal, and see how they rise to the occasion. An animated Miss Todd dreams of flying at a time when opportunities for women didn’t even exist on the ground; two sisters chase their passion while challenged with an extreme environment in the documentary Baking Alaska; and in Playing House subject and director, Suzanne Heintz, confronts societal pressure on women of a “certain age” to be paired up and have a family by creating her own family scrapbook of self portraits that document her “mannequin” family travels.

Films and Events in Program...

USA
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2013
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30 min.
Director:
Kari Barber
Baking Alaska is an award-winning documentary film about two Southern sisters who pursue a dream of opening a bakery all the way to Homer, Alaska. Amid fishermen and outdoorsy adventurers they’ll face the challenges of an extreme environment and working with family.... more

USA
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2013
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13 min.
Director:
Kristina Yee
Miss Todd is a short, stop-motion, musical animation about the first woman in the world to build and design an airplane. The film was made at the National Film and Television School in England and is inspired by a real person.... more

USA
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2013
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15 min.
Director:
Suzanne Heintz
An Unwed Woman's life is documented in Kodak Moments, living with a Manufactured Family of Mannequins. Suzanne Heintz, a Photographer and self-proclaimed "Spinster," had enough of people repeatedly asking why she wasn't married. After years in what she calls a "social pressure cooker," Heintz finall... more